Im curious what folks think is an appropriate time to wait for contest results? The wait time is all over the map: - NAQPs preliminary results published in small number of weeks, definitive around 4
I think logs should be submitted within 24h of the end of the contest and results should be available a month later. Barry W2UP The wait time is all over the map: - NAQPs preliminary results publishe
Are you under the impression sponsors don't want results out sooner? That there's some kind of conspiracy to delay the work involved? Have you volunteered to assist with adjudication? The economics o
I note that with regard to the CQWW & CQ WPX contests, which are the largest in the world in terms of participants and entrants by far: thanks to the extremely hard work of the volunteers on the resp
My personal preference is that the results be announced as quickly as reporting deadline and log-checking resources permit. There are, however, two factors that might somewhat justify a delay in that
I want to see logs due within 3-5 days (with reasonable extensions given genuine circumstances such as travel from DX locations and no access to internet, or computer crashes) and I want to see resul
Thank you and yes, I do volunteer to adjudicate different contests and am an active participant in PL259s sponsorship of the Makrothen RTTY Contest. Those activities have included manually editing hu
I wasn't trying to attack, but I do know the League, for one, puts out results online as soon as they are compiled and the results author can craft a short who-smote-whom story. The printed version c
That is unreasonable for an operation that travels to a remote location without internet access. 73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contes
I have some small insight into the ARRL process. They still do a 30 day log deadline; I do know they are looking at making that 7 days, which should help. Log checking and scoring is done by voluntee
The wait time is all over the map: - NAQPs preliminary results published in small number of weeks, definitive around 4 months or so - ARRL contests seem still to be driven by the print schedule of QS
I agree, it's unreasonable to expect log submission within 24 hours, not only for the reason mentioned, but also to give participants some breathing time after the contest. This way they can review t
Error free is one thing but, in consistent Cabrillo format is something else! There are at least 7 different formats of Cabrillo I see just for the Makrothen RTTY contest alone they are all conforman
log processing. Fair enough, but consider this: I look after a QSO Party, and handle the post contest logs. This is not a complaint - I am happy to do it, but it is interesting to see the post conte
Hi Tom, You are right, I have never been involved in post log processing. As for the examples you list, they could be handled by pointing the participant to a web interface for log submission. I can'
Hi Dave, Both you and Tom make very valid points regarding small contests. I was focusing on the big ones. I still think that eventually every contest participant, whether the contest is big or small
HI Everone... I'm enjoying this thread....I share Tom's view... i manage the SCQP contest scoring and our goal is to complete the scoring as soon as possible... As Tom mentioned, we receive cabrillo